Tulsa Women Endure 4-1 Setback Against Arizona

Sunday, March 23

Stillwater, Okla.

10:00 a.m.

Tulsa

Arizona

Photo by: Alina Lebedeva

Tulsa Women Endure 4-1 Setback Against Arizona

3/23/2025 12:37:00 PM | Women's Tennis

STILLWATER, Okla. — The Tulsa women's tennis team fell Sunday to a tough Arizona Wildcats squad in a 4-1 decision in a neutral dual match at Oklahoma State's Greenwood Tennis Center. The Golden Hurricane's four-match win streak was snapped as TU dropped to 14-5 with just four regular season matches left this season.

Arizona took the doubles point with 6-3 wins in the first and third positions, clinching the point at the bottom of the lineup. 82^nd-ranked Ana Naranjo Martinez and Mariana Manyoma Velasquez were up 5-4 when doubles play concluded.

Senior Maria Berlanga Bandera, the nation's 65^th-ranked singles player, highlighted singles action for Tulsa on Sunday, cruising to a 6-1, 6-3 victory in her usual spot atop the lineup and upsetting No. 47 Josie Usereau. Berlanga moved to 21-6 overall and 13-4 in dual matches.

After that, Arizona ran away with the match with two-set winners in the second, fifth and sixth positions, with Tanvi Narendran sealing the deal in the fifth spot (6-4, 6-1). Velasquez held a one-set lead in the No. 3 court, while Naranjo was fighting to stay alive one line down at Singles No. 4.

The Tulsa women will return home to the Michael D. Case Tennis Center for the last time this season to host UTSA (17-2) on Saturday, March 29, at 10 a.m. for Senior Day.

Singles
1. #65 Maria Berlanga Bandera (TU) def. #47 Josie Usereau (AZ) 6-1, 6-3
2. Midori Castillo-Meza (AZ) def. Lily Hutchings (TU) 6-2, 6-2
3. Mariana Manyoma Velasquez (TU) vs. Martyna Ostrzygalo (AZ) 7-6 (7-1), 1-1, unfinished
4. Ana Naranjo Martinez (TU) vs. Danielle Tuhten (AZ) 5-7, 1-4, unfinished
5. Tanvi Narendran (AZ) def. Tayla Wilmot (TU) 6-4, 6-1
6. Zoya Chulak (AZ) def. Erin McKenzie (TU) 6-3, 6-4

Doubles
1. Tuhten/Usereau (AZ) def. #67 Berlanga/Hutchings 6-3
2. #82 Naranjo/Velasquez (TU) vs. Ostrzygalo/Tirunelveli (AZ) 5-4, unfinished
3. Castillo-Meza/Nevenhoven (AZ) def. Basson/Wilmot (TU) 6-3

Order of finish: Doubles (1,3); Singles (1,2,6,5)